Dashing through the mall, having traded your one-horse open sleigh for a minivan, you have secured gifts for all creatures, including the mouse. Now you are ready to leave on a plane…
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Today our dear friend, pediatrician, and mom, Wendy Lee shares insights and personal experience on how to tell your child he is adopted. My husband and I had waited three long years…
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Breastfeeding moms often ask us what medications they can take and not adversely effect the baby. The most complete database we have found is LactMed . Hope you won’t have the need to…
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At a baby’s six month old check-up I advise parents to have their child start drinking from a cup. Some respond with surprise,” A cup? So young? How exciting! Do you mean…
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Two Peds in a Pod turns today to guest blogger Dr. Alan Woolf, Director of the Pediatric Environmental Health Center at Children’s Hospital Boston and president-elect of the American Academy of Clinical Toxicology, to…
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A few days ago, I spoke with the faculty of a local early childhood education center about flu vaccine myths. See how you do on the true and false quiz I gave…
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Picture this: you are going back to work after a too-short maternity leave. Briefcase? Check. Lunch? Check. Breast pump? Check. Photo of your baby to put on your pump for inspiration? Check.…
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My patient looked up at me. “Do you want to see what I can do?” she asked. Her father mockingly moaned, ”Oh, no.” “Pleeease,” persisted the girl, “just once.” The dad just…
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A concerned parent wrote to us: Can you please read this and comment?www.thinktwice. com. I’m terrified to vaccinate due to sites like these. There seems to be many horrifying stories out there to…
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Eeew! Pictured is the raw chicken I left sitting out in a pot for a day (inadvertently, of course). The putrid mess was teaming with germs and amongst them was probably salmonella.…
